A productive Saturday!

This morning we slept in and all surfaced by about 9. We headed out to the Blue Cow for breakfast and made the most of it with huge meals! We also asked the butcher for a pork roast for tonight so he brought out half a pig and cut and strung a 1.5kg roast for us with plenty of crackling!

We walked down to the shopping center and picked up some supplies to make salads to go with the pork before heading back to the car and driving home. Straight away, Ross got the bedroom prepared for painting. We were going to paint the small alcove green. It was again a team effort - this time I stayed well clear and let the other three go at it.

Before long, we realised the 1L of paint that we had bought was not going to be enough so Ross and Ann went out on the hunt for more paint. Meanwhile, Dad finished the rest of the existing paint and then headed off for a nap. I got busy finally unpacking after Cambodia and doing a few more chores around the house as well as starting dinner. Dad woke up and helped me prepare the meat for the BBQ rotisserie and it had been cooking for about 20 minutes by the time Ross and Ann got home with paint after their epic journey around 3 ACE Hardware stores in KL.

We finished the painting while the meat cooked and at about 7 we ate dinner outside on the balcony. The roast pork was beautiful and the crackling so crunchy! The infusion of white wine, sage, rosemary, onion and apple sauce had definitely done the trick to keep the meat moist. The apple coleslaw and honey mustard potato salad went well with the meal as did the apple cider. We were all happy and full by the end of the meal.

We cleaned up and then watched a couple of episodes of the Tudors (with a Kahlua chaser) before heading to bed. A good and productive day!